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...country travel that was planned before she enrolled in “Understanding Computers and the Internet.”Burgess said she prefers Podcasts, which allow her to return to the material after attending an intensive two-hour lecture.“I’m 59 years old??I have to go over things a little more often,” Burgess said. “[Podcasting is] a brilliant way for us oldies to learn.”Malan sees the new medium as a practical application of the material he teaches...
...embarrassingly personal comes naturally. This is the man who lauded the power of the stereo serenade in “Say Anything,” the director who glorified the car sing-along in “Jerry Maguire,” the inspiration behind a 15-year-old??s awkward loss of virginity in “Almost Famous.” “The personal stuff tends to be the thing people come up to me later and say, ‘Thank you for putting that in a movie. It feels like...
...unfortunately cut short by a particularly negative turn in his life’s theme of fights and flights. He collapsed on a beach at Port Ercole, while trying to run after the ship that had left with all of his most recent work. While the 39 year-old??s body remained on that beach, his paintings sailed away: Caravaggio’s work outlived him. For centuries, his art was largely criticized as vulgar and lacking imagination. Only in the 1950s, after an exhibit of his work in Milan, was Caravaggio rediscovered...
Born in New Haven, Conn. in 1921, she rose from humble beginnings. Her family did not have the money to send her to college. However, after she gave a speech on civil rights at a local meeting when she was 18 years old??“You know how 18-year-olds can sound off,” she would later recall in the New York Times—a white businessman in the audience was so impressed that he decided to finance her education...
...Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction (and is the second fatal flight this year by low-cost provider West Caribbean Airlines). While inspections have not yielded clear results for the Indonesian flight, the aging Boeing was nearly 25 years old??and scheduled to keep flying for eleven more years. I suspect that these accidents were not altogether unavoidable given more careful maintenance or a less thrifty schedule of plane replacement...